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Internet videos are on the rise. Folks would rather watch than read. Call it web 2.0 that many of you may be hearing about. I've been playing around with creating one that deals with replacing a hardwood floor board. Quality photos is they key if you want to add some still shots, which I did in the YouTube video below. Still shots yes, quality...hardly. Pics were taken at the NWFA convention eariler this year. Lighting was poor and of course I had the wrong setting on the camera.

When th… Continue

I thought about this topic because it may be a great angle in getting more hardwood jobs for installers. We all hear the talk about this engineered floor can be refinished one, two, and three times blah, blah, blah. That’s what the manufacturers, dealers, and salespeople say, but does anyone go as far as educating the buyer if it can be refinished that many times? Much has to do with sub floor flatness.

Next time you hear a customer balk at floor prep charges or simply want to go with th… Continue

Times change quickly. Not long ago installers could pick their own jobs, but what’s happening today with the lousy economy? Are installers willing to take on those dreaded jobs? You bet. Money is tight. With business in the doldrums (some say they’ve never seen it worse) I talked to a fellow that works for a national flooring removal company.

“Dealers don’t call us anymore,” says Bob Knupp who works as a regional representative for a national flooring removal company. Trying to get new account… Continue

I would like to thank Steve for setting up this blog...and one of these days if he can get away from his jet set life maybe we can get together. I look in on your blog from time to time. China, Portugal and all those Ifloor cities. Yo man let's get together this January of February.

I'll be in these cities and you have an IFloor store in or near each one of them:

Dallas
Tempe
San Deigo- no store?
Las Vegas - ooops I thought you had a store there
LA
Around San Jose… Continue